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Piety, Power, and Politics. Religion and Nation Formation in Guatemala 1821-1872
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Sullivan-González, Douglass
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972.044 S949
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Douglass Sullivan-González examines the influence of religion on the development of nationalism in Guatemala during the period 1821 - 1871, focusing on the relationship between Rafael Carrera and teh Guatemalan Catholic Church. He illustrates the peculiar and fascinating blend of religious fervor, popular power, and caudillo politics that inspired a multiethnic and multiclass alliance to defend the Guatemalan nation in the mid-nineteenth century.
Led by the military stongman Rafael Carrera, an unlikely coalition of mestizoas, Indians, and creoles (whites born in the Americas) overcame a devasting civil war in the late 1840s and withstood two threats (1851 and 1863) from neighboring Honduras and El Salvador that aimed at reintegrating conservative Guatemala into a liberal federation of Central Amercan nations. Sullivan-González shows that religious discourse and ritual were crucial to the successful construction and defense of independent Guatemala. Sermons commemorating independence from Spain developed a covenantal theology that affiermed divine protection if the Guatemalan people embraced Catholicism. Sullivan-González examines the extent to which this religious and nationalist discourse was popularly appropriated. Recently opened archives of the Guatemalan Catholic Church revealed that the larg3ely mestizo population of the central and eastern highlands responded favorably to the churc's message. Records indicate that Carrera depended upon the clerics' ability to pacify the rebellious inhabitants during Guatemala's civil war (1847-1851) and to rally them to Guatemala's defense against foreing invaders. Though hostile to whites and mestizos, the majority indigenous population of the western highlands identified with Carrera as their liberator. Their admiration for and loyalty to Carrera allowed them a territory that far exceeded their own social space. Though populist and antidemocratic, the historic legacy of the Carrera years is the Guatemalan nation. Sullivan-González details how theological discourse, popular claims emerging grom mestizo and Indian communities, and the caudillo's ability to finesse his enemies enabled Carrera to bring together divergent and contradictory interests to bind many nations into one. |
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0-8229-4057-4
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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1998
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Pitt Latin American Series
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186
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United States of America
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Pennsylvania
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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10/11/2014
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10/11/2014
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